Country Radio Seminar (CRS) 2026<\/em><\/a>, taking place March 18-20 at the Omni Nashville Hotel.<\/p>\nA multi-year host of the New Faces of Country Music\u00ae Show<\/em>, Smith is widely known as host of the nationally syndicated Backstage Country<\/em>, as well as for her previous work on Nights with Elaina<\/em> and her Breaking Thru with Elaina<\/em> podcast.<\/p>\nCo-partnered by the Academy of Country Music and St. Jude Children\u2019s Research Hospital, the show will spotlight a standout class of emerging artists who have achieved significant momentum at Country radio during the qualification period leading into CRS 2026<\/em>. This year\u2019s performers include Kelsey Hart<\/strong>, Ella Langley<\/strong>, Chase Matthew<\/strong>, John Morgan<\/strong>, Meghan Patrick<\/strong>, and Josh Ross<\/strong>.<\/p>\nFor more than five decades, the New Faces of Country Music\u00ae Show<\/em> has served as a defining moment in the careers of many of the format\u2019s most successful artists and remains a must-attend event for radio programmers, label executives, and industry tastemakers.<\/p>\nRegistration for CRS 2026<\/em> is no longer available online and will be available exclusively on-site at $799 through the start of the event. A limited number of New Faces of Country Music\u00ae <\/em>tickets remain available for $110 and are sold separately.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source ramp247.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2022 Country Radio Broadcasters (CRB) announced that award-winning broadcaster and nationally recognized Country radio personality Elaina Smith will return as host of the New Faces of Country Music\u00ae Show during Country Radio Seminar (CRS) 2026, taking place March 18-20 at the Omni Nashville Hotel. A multi-year host of the New Faces of Country Music\u00ae Show, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2290181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2290180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Elaina-Back-As-Host-Of-\u2018New-Faces-\u2013-RAMP-\u2013.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2290180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2290182,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290180\/revisions\/2290182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2290181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2290180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2290180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2290180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\u2022 Country Radio Broadcasters (CRB) announced that award-winning broadcaster and nationally recognized Country radio personality Elaina Smith<\/strong> will return as host of the New Faces of Country Music\u00ae Show<\/em> during